Artistic Manifesto
I am a community based theatre maker who uses applied drama methodologies to work with populations not traditionally impacted by theatre. I believe in the power of the artistic medium of theatre to make the world a better place.
I work in a collaborative environment where every voice is recognized as valuable. Partnerships are the backbone of Community and Cultural Development work. There is a force of unity that exists in theatre that is unparalleled. However even in our collaborative efforts, we don’t speak with one voice, but with many.
The act of coming together to craft and build a product based on shared values is the creation of culture. It is this family and support that communities crave. This cultural voice is stronger than any that one person can have on their own. It is used to create a community dialogue that clarifies, questions and values everyone’s voices.
As an artist, I think critically and scholastically and move beyond the role of a passive consumer. I seek to question and challenge the values, beliefs and attitudes of others. I expect the same level of engagement from the communities with which I work.
I am open-minded and flexible and am comfortable with uncertainty and paradox. I seek to develop new perspectives on entrenched issues and engrained ways of thinking.
I believe that theatre has the power to change the world. Not through any one show, but through the communal development of perceptions and attitudes that lives on in the involved participants.
Theatre is social commentary. In the creation of art, we reflect the world around us, or the world we would like to see around us. By creating art together, ALL people find a way of engaging with their community to express social values, beliefs and a shared humanity. Theatre allows us the opportunity to bridge the gaps between us, gaps like language, religion, age, gender, race, and find the strength in our individuality that can contribute to a shared vision. By sharing our stories and our humanness we create a space for sharing our communities and ourselves. We create and recreate meaning through the discourse of our personal narratives. This discourse is the way that theatre changes the world.
My art takes risks and doesn’t settle on simple answers.
It challenges and evaluates theories and beliefs in order to find better definitions of self. Theatre doesn’t pose a singular solution or answer, but allows participants to interrogate and live in the multitudinous of our identities and backgrounds.
We don’t take away one message, or a simplified platitude, but learn better how to live within the complex questions of our existence.
I am a community based theatre maker who uses applied drama methodologies to work with populations not traditionally impacted by theatre. I believe in the power of the artistic medium of theatre to make the world a better place.
I work in a collaborative environment where every voice is recognized as valuable. Partnerships are the backbone of Community and Cultural Development work. There is a force of unity that exists in theatre that is unparalleled. However even in our collaborative efforts, we don’t speak with one voice, but with many.
The act of coming together to craft and build a product based on shared values is the creation of culture. It is this family and support that communities crave. This cultural voice is stronger than any that one person can have on their own. It is used to create a community dialogue that clarifies, questions and values everyone’s voices.
As an artist, I think critically and scholastically and move beyond the role of a passive consumer. I seek to question and challenge the values, beliefs and attitudes of others. I expect the same level of engagement from the communities with which I work.
I am open-minded and flexible and am comfortable with uncertainty and paradox. I seek to develop new perspectives on entrenched issues and engrained ways of thinking.
I believe that theatre has the power to change the world. Not through any one show, but through the communal development of perceptions and attitudes that lives on in the involved participants.
Theatre is social commentary. In the creation of art, we reflect the world around us, or the world we would like to see around us. By creating art together, ALL people find a way of engaging with their community to express social values, beliefs and a shared humanity. Theatre allows us the opportunity to bridge the gaps between us, gaps like language, religion, age, gender, race, and find the strength in our individuality that can contribute to a shared vision. By sharing our stories and our humanness we create a space for sharing our communities and ourselves. We create and recreate meaning through the discourse of our personal narratives. This discourse is the way that theatre changes the world.
My art takes risks and doesn’t settle on simple answers.
It challenges and evaluates theories and beliefs in order to find better definitions of self. Theatre doesn’t pose a singular solution or answer, but allows participants to interrogate and live in the multitudinous of our identities and backgrounds.
We don’t take away one message, or a simplified platitude, but learn better how to live within the complex questions of our existence.
